Awards — MDG Design + Construction
An aerial exterior precedent for urban multi-family infill, utilizing brick massing, stepped heights, and rhythmic window arrangements to integrate with a mixed-scale neighborhood.
- What we like about this project
- Solar array installation integrated across the flat rooftop plane.
Materials
- brick
- glass
- metal
- concrete
Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing
- brick-facade
- vertical-windows
- curved-street-frontage
Style tags
- contemporary
- contextual
- urban
Visual tags
- multi-family
- urban-infill
- brick
- contextual
- exterior-facade
- Geometry
- Stepped multi-story brick massing following a gentle curve along the street edge, punctuated by vertical window alignments and recessed spandrel panels.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or backup wall with textured brick masonry cladding, punched windows, and metal spandrel panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab construction with masonry veneer.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential scale, bridging between mid-rise neighborhood buildings and taller apartment towers.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight casting long, sharp shadows across the facade and streetscape.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active daytime urban environment.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting featuring surrounding mid-rise and high-rise residential blocks, mature street trees, and asphalt paving.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages directly with the street fabric, stepping down in height to transition from taller urban towers to lower neighborhood context.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays rhythmically interrupted by contrasting spandrels and subtle massing steps.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual multi-family architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture
- Materials
- brick, glass, metal, concrete
- Visual identifiers
- stepped-massing, brick-facade, vertical-windows, curved-street-frontage
- Style tags
- contemporary, contextual, urban
- Visual tags
- multi-family, urban-infill, brick, contextual, exterior-facade
- Geometry
- Stepped multi-story brick massing following a gentle curve along the street edge, punctuated by vertical window alignments and recessed spandrel panels.
- Facade system
- Load-bearing or backup wall with textured brick masonry cladding, punched windows, and metal spandrel panels.
- Structural guess
- Steel frame or concrete slab construction with masonry veneer.
- Spatial scale
- Large multi-family residential scale, bridging between mid-rise neighborhood buildings and taller apartment towers.
- Lighting
- Clear daylight casting long, sharp shadows across the facade and streetscape.
- Atmosphere
- Bright, active daytime urban environment.
- Environmental context
- Urban infill setting featuring surrounding mid-rise and high-rise residential blocks, mature street trees, and asphalt paving.
- Spatial experience
- The building engages directly with the street fabric, stepping down in height to transition from taller urban towers to lower neighborhood context.
- Composition rhythm
- Regular vertical window bays rhythmically interrupted by contrasting spandrels and subtle massing steps.
- Style reading
- Contemporary contextual multi-family architecture
- Program
- Multi-family residential apartment building
- Perspective
- Aerial/Site
- Discipline
- architecture